【推荐1】Miss Yellow was a little seed (种子) in India. Like other seeds, she tried to become a very beautiful plant, ________ she couldn’t. So she thought, “Maybe India isn’t a good place for me.” She wanted to find the ________ place to grow, so she went to visit the Wind. “Mr. Wind, could you help me find a nice place? I hope to ________ there.” “Sure.” the Wind answered.

Then they left her ________ and went to visit the Sun, the Rain and the Ground in other countries. How ________ when she saw the new environment! Unluckily, Miss Yellow tried very hard to grow, but she wasn’t ________. There is not much water in the ground. She often felt thirsty and sad. Then she met a gardener. “It’s hot and dry here. Why are you here, little seed?” The gardener asked ________. “I will take you to another place and I will ________ you,” the gardener suggested.

The gardener took Miss Yellow back to ________ homeland. In India, with the help of the ________, Miss Yellow was finally able to grow taller and taller.

【推荐2】A long time ago, there lived a wise man named Zun-Nun in Egypt. A young man came to visit him and asked,” Teacher, why do you dress in such a way? Nowadays it's____ to dress neatly ( 整洁地 ), isn't it? Or how will people know you're____a special and wise man?”

Zun-Nun smiled, took a____from his finger and said, “Young friend, I'll answer your question, but first do one thing for me. Take this ring to the market. Can you___it for one chip(条) of gold?”

When the young man looked at this____ring, he____himself, “How will I sell it at that price?"

He showed the ring to the vegetable, meat and fish traders and others in the market.But____ was willing to pay a chip of gold.

He came back and told this to Zun-Nun. Zun-Nun said, “Now go to the gold shop and show the ring to the owner. Don't give a____. Just see how much he will pay.”

One hour later, the young man came back. “Teacher, people in the market really didn't know the value of this ring. But the gold shop owner____ me 1 ,000 chips of gold."

Zun-Nun smiled, “That's the answer to your question, my friend. Someone can't be____only from his dress. The ring was a gift from the king," he said.

【推荐1】A young man went to visit a wise man living deep in the mountain for the wisdom of life. “Excuse me! Could you please tell me what the most_____ day in our life is? Is it the day when we were born or the       day we_____? Is it the day when we fall in love or the day we succeed?” the young man asked.

“ ___. The most important day in our lives is today.” the wise man replied calmly. “Why?” the young man felt very___. “Is it because there is a moving event___today?”

“No, nothing has happened today.” “Is it because of my visit?”

“Even if nobody visited me today, today is______very important because today is the only   wealth we have. No matter how memorable yesterday is, it has gone by like a ship going down into the sea. No matter how bright tomorrow may be, it doesn’t come. But no matter how common today is, it is ____our control.”

The young man still wanted to ask something, while the wise man______him and said, “When we are talking about the meaning of today, we have______a lot of it.” The young man nodded and then went down the mountain.

Actually, today is the only____we have. So, what we should do now is to forget yesterday and tomorrow and catch fast today.

【推荐2】One day a man and his donkey（驴）were walking down the road. They __ a traveler on the road and the traveler wanted to hire（租用）the donkey. The owner __, but he said to the traveler, “ This animal is very ___. I always have to use a stick（枝条）to make it move. I __ that I go with you. You can ride on the donkey’s back while I __ behind.”

Then they started out. At noon, the weather was so hot that they decided to stop and have a __. The only shade（阴凉处）they could find was __ the donkey.

Both men tried to sit there but there wasn’t enough __. The owner said, “ I should be the one to sit under the donkey __ this is my donkey.”

“ But I ___ for the ride,” said the traveler.

“ No,” said the owner. “ You paid to ride on the donkey, ___ not to sit under the donkey. So the shade belongs to ___.”

They argued on and on. When they ___ stopped arguing, they found that the donkey and the shade were both gone. The traveler had to ___ to his town while the owner had to spend hours ___ his lost donkey in the sun.

There was a poor boy called Ma Liang. One day, when he saw a man drawing for an officer, he fell in love ________ drawing. He hoped the officer could give him a brush to draw pictures. But the officer laughed at him and drove him away.

Ma Liang didn’t give up. He began to learn to draw by ________. When he went to cut wood on the mountain, he would draw with a stick. When he went to cut ________ by the river, he would draw with the grass root (根). He drew whatever he saw. One night, he dreamed that an old man gave him a(n) ________ brush. With the brush, everything he drew ________ real. Then Ma Liang began to draw for the poor.

The officer ________ that and asked Ma Liang to draw gold for him. Ma Liang refused, _______ he was put into prison (监狱). Then Ma Liang ________ drew a door on the wall and ran out. But the officer caught him again. This time, the officer wanted a gold mountain. Ma Liang had no choice but to draw a gold mountain in the middle of the sea. The officer was excited and shouted, “Be quick! Draw a big ________. I want to get the gold back.” However, on the way to the gold mountain, there came a strong wind. The officer fell into the sea.

Finally, Ma Liang was _______. He went back home and continued to draw for the poor.